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Having been a fan of Cray all of my life, I finally ended up 5 years ago in the Chippewa Valley, unbeknown to me that this was the home of that great Company, Man, and machine. Touring the before mentioned museum I got an idea to build a replica, since I always wanted to have a Cray be the focal point of my house.
Still wish I could get a real Cray....
At least I got the chance to work in a former Cray building with people who formerly worked at other Cray plants. Its an awesome experience to hear about the company and all it accomplished before falling apart.
I too was going to get the DROIDX when my time was due - maybe even two. And my old droids would be used for robotics or other interesting creations and this would totally rain on my parade. I paid money for both DROIDs I have, why do they self-destruct when I use it for legal uses on or off the network?
The droid was the last reason to stay with Verizon - I was from Alltel who had stock open phones from Moto, and my fiance had a VZW RAZR that wouldnt let you do shit. The open and moddable droid comes along, I sign up for a 2 year double contract, buy two phones, and sign my life over to VZW.
Micron Electronics? I hear horror stories of them backordering returned parts until they finally ship the guy a better, top of the line part as a "sorry we screwed up" with free shipping. Tech support was based in america and would answer any question in 24~ hours, no matter how random or stupid including WHO MAKES YOUR MOTHERBOARDS? They'd link you to the company.
I totally agree. I got into a lot of the music I love today through file sharing. I'm sure my parents got into some of the things they like from sharing records or copying tapes (or god forbid, reels)
My assumption is that they are mapping out locations like Coffee shops and what not so joe blow can find it and head over there from search listings. Also great for devices without gps, it gives a better fix than Cell towers that are thousands of feet off.
When i was younger i got my dads pentium 90 and decided that i'd put it back together (it had been parted out into a few P150's and a pentium pro system.
I found: A bad drive, bad drive cable, bad CMOS battery, bios had bad settings, a dead fan causing overheating in some parts. It took forever to find that the cable was bad on top of the drive, but after swapping in known working parts its not that hard.
I'm sorry but from one shitty amateur photographer to this guy, YOUR PICTURES SUCK. They are blurry, the HDR ones are lacking in contrast, does he know whats going on?
Given, the subject matter and story he wrote is far better, but someone teach him how to use a tripod!
I may or may not have a say on this as I may or may not know how Cisco makes their products...
They farm the work out to 3rd parties much like AMD has its fab labs - last I heard we here in the US make the first runs of Cisco stuff and then its shipped over to China to be mass produced as thats cheaper than making it here.
I may or may not work for one of the biggest PCB fabbers here. Maybe.
Where I work apparently we have or do or will or can (one of those) make electronics parts for the medical industry. They seem to have higher standards than military even - and if one part of the lot fails, goodbye everything, it all fails, even if its one person dropping one part of a few hundred.
Obviously its a common thing I see today - over-engineering. When you have unlimited resources (or something like that) and customers who are forced into buying whatever you make, you have no limits or reason to do "real" engineering.
They should still benefit. However, running on Nvidia hardware basically farks you - you need CUDA at least for now, and that crap is expensive. ATI packs a bigger punch, for less in the short (Cheaper GPU) and long run (less power per flop)
GPU's are great are multiple parallel things, which is what you're describing. Tada
I'd agree. I'm a huge fan of Cray, they know what they are doing. I'm a happy fan of theirs (and note that they use AMD exclusively now) and am very proud to work in a former cray building, next a another former cray building, down the street from cray's home, near his first plant. Yep, I'm in Wisconsin, but I'm not a native. (BEER!)
Cray knew that its the system that makes the machine and that the machine is as fast as its slowest part. The Cray I was used to run legacy code for his older 7600 machine just because its execution of that code was faster, even without utilization of the advanced vector units and whatever. It sold on that fact alone.
AMD follows the system rule - they have a hyper transport that beats intel. Intel is living in the past and has always had the problem of feeding the cpu, and when they went mutli-core they basically cut the straw feeding the lion in half.
I dont see this being a super computer, or even competing with anything. A decent desktop with a few pairs Operon 45W Quad-Cores and ATI 5xxx's will blow the shit out of this. 1600 cores per GPU, lower power, cheaper, faster, more open. (Open Computing Language)
Sounds like TI is just disabling stuff in software to separate the versions.
When I was in highschool and they forced you to have a TI86 or whatever, I went out and got a palm pilot for $50 less, color screen. Then I went and got some top shelf software for it, $29. I could write basic (compiled even) programs, play games in color, and my calculator was faster and more powerful than those massive desk size TI's that have a color screen. Also having a touch screen is bar none. It just was "right" for graphing.
The big great thing about open source is that anyone can add anything. The big grate problem with open sores is the fact that anyone can add anything. I se e more and more projects started by people who arent capable of finishing it, and leave it to others to finish, causing crap to pile up and unfinished softare to float around. I have always been upset with how much crap linux has. 4500 calculators, none that I really liked all that much, etc. It does a lot of things okay, but nothing exceptional, so we have fill ins and duplicates. I'd love a lean build where they focus on making things GREAT and toss the cookies. No more should I need a DVD to install crap that is useless no matter how you look at it. Open Office, Firefox, Linux Kernal, FIX KDE!, and some basic tools that dont overlap. Should squeak in just under 500mb, right? and run like a banshee on any platform
My dad tells a story about how he was one of the first to push NT in the corporate world. Apperently that made the team excited and he got a direct phone number to get support so there would be no flukes to tarnish its image. The story also goes that it worked better than the junk that they had been using, and since it worked well others in the company overlooked the "wonkey new operating system." Though as all things go, management changed and ditched everything because it wasn't the same as everything.
I think its more of management than IT. Even where I work now it still follows this pattern - management changes and they have to step in and change everything so it looks like they are all big and important.
For the record, NT at the time was far, far superior than what they had been using. I dont think I can say that about windows 7. XP runs everything it does (.net, windows installer, office, etc.) and most companies already have plenty of licenses for it.
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Having been a fan of Cray all of my life, I finally ended up 5 years ago in the Chippewa Valley, unbeknown to me that this was the home of that great Company, Man, and machine. Touring the before mentioned museum I got an idea to build a replica, since I always wanted to have a Cray be the focal point of my house.
Still wish I could get a real Cray....
At least I got the chance to work in a former Cray building with people who formerly worked at other Cray plants. Its an awesome experience to hear about the company and all it accomplished before falling apart.
I too was going to get the DROIDX when my time was due - maybe even two. And my old droids would be used for robotics or other interesting creations and this would totally rain on my parade. I paid money for both DROIDs I have, why do they self-destruct when I use it for legal uses on or off the network?
The droid was the last reason to stay with Verizon - I was from Alltel who had stock open phones from Moto, and my fiance had a VZW RAZR that wouldnt let you do shit. The open and moddable droid comes along, I sign up for a 2 year double contract, buy two phones, and sign my life over to VZW.
Then they pull this!
Micron Electronics? I hear horror stories of them backordering returned parts until they finally ship the guy a better, top of the line part as a "sorry we screwed up" with free shipping. Tech support was based in america and would answer any question in 24~ hours, no matter how random or stupid including WHO MAKES YOUR MOTHERBOARDS? They'd link you to the company.
I totally agree. I got into a lot of the music I love today through file sharing. I'm sure my parents got into some of the things they like from sharing records or copying tapes (or god forbid, reels)
Most Diesel cars get 2x the MPG than gasoline due to their efficiency, torque and what not.
Isnt that a rule of acquisition?
My assumption is that they are mapping out locations like Coffee shops and what not so joe blow can find it and head over there from search listings. Also great for devices without gps, it gives a better fix than Cell towers that are thousands of feet off.
When i was younger i got my dads pentium 90 and decided that i'd put it back together (it had been parted out into a few P150's and a pentium pro system.
I found:
A bad drive, bad drive cable, bad CMOS battery, bios had bad settings, a dead fan causing overheating in some parts. It took forever to find that the cable was bad on top of the drive, but after swapping in known working parts its not that hard.
I'm sorry but from one shitty amateur photographer to this guy, YOUR PICTURES SUCK. They are blurry, the HDR ones are lacking in contrast, does he know whats going on?
Given, the subject matter and story he wrote is far better, but someone teach him how to use a tripod!
Vyetta Linux Routers
Clark Connect
ClearOS
Pick one. Does more faster. Rinse, repeat.
I may or may not have a say on this as I may or may not know how Cisco makes their products...
They farm the work out to 3rd parties much like AMD has its fab labs - last I heard we here in the US make the first runs of Cisco stuff and then its shipped over to China to be mass produced as thats cheaper than making it here.
I may or may not work for one of the biggest PCB fabbers here. Maybe.
"I thought you said days" he wasnt gone for 30 months. FAIL :)
Where I work apparently we have or do or will or can (one of those) make electronics parts for the medical industry. They seem to have higher standards than military even - and if one part of the lot fails, goodbye everything, it all fails, even if its one person dropping one part of a few hundred.
Obviously its a common thing I see today - over-engineering. When you have unlimited resources (or something like that) and customers who are forced into buying whatever you make, you have no limits or reason to do "real" engineering.
They should still benefit. However, running on Nvidia hardware basically farks you - you need CUDA at least for now, and that crap is expensive. ATI packs a bigger punch, for less in the short (Cheaper GPU) and long run (less power per flop)
GPU's are great are multiple parallel things, which is what you're describing. Tada
I'd agree. I'm a huge fan of Cray, they know what they are doing. I'm a happy fan of theirs (and note that they use AMD exclusively now) and am very proud to work in a former cray building, next a another former cray building, down the street from cray's home, near his first plant. Yep, I'm in Wisconsin, but I'm not a native. (BEER!)
Cray knew that its the system that makes the machine and that the machine is as fast as its slowest part. The Cray I was used to run legacy code for his older 7600 machine just because its execution of that code was faster, even without utilization of the advanced vector units and whatever. It sold on that fact alone.
AMD follows the system rule - they have a hyper transport that beats intel. Intel is living in the past and has always had the problem of feeding the cpu, and when they went mutli-core they basically cut the straw feeding the lion in half.
I dont see this being a super computer, or even competing with anything. A decent desktop with a few pairs Operon 45W Quad-Cores and ATI 5xxx's will blow the shit out of this. 1600 cores per GPU, lower power, cheaper, faster, more open. (Open Computing Language)
ASUS Fail?
Sounds like TI is just disabling stuff in software to separate the versions.
When I was in highschool and they forced you to have a TI86 or whatever, I went out and got a palm pilot for $50 less, color screen. Then I went and got some top shelf software for it, $29. I could write basic (compiled even) programs, play games in color, and my calculator was faster and more powerful than those massive desk size TI's that have a color screen. Also having a touch screen is bar none. It just was "right" for graphing.
I love this new commercial here where a kid has acne and gets a creme to remedy it. Soon he's acne free, but has a giant cold sore on his lip. Hurray!
Actually, its still on tv...
The big great thing about open source is that anyone can add anything. The big grate problem with open sores is the fact that anyone can add anything. I se e more and more projects started by people who arent capable of finishing it, and leave it to others to finish, causing crap to pile up and unfinished softare to float around. I have always been upset with how much crap linux has. 4500 calculators, none that I really liked all that much, etc. It does a lot of things okay, but nothing exceptional, so we have fill ins and duplicates. I'd love a lean build where they focus on making things GREAT and toss the cookies. No more should I need a DVD to install crap that is useless no matter how you look at it. Open Office, Firefox, Linux Kernal, FIX KDE!, and some basic tools that dont overlap. Should squeak in just under 500mb, right? and run like a banshee on any platform
And none of you get that they totally can fix the bug and already have for XP;
Windows 2003 is running basically a slightly modified XP kernal. FAIL.
They are purposefully backing users into an upgrade or die corner
3M had "invented" a form of ceramic aluminum that was transparent like 10 years ago. /. is really starting to suck the big one.
I'm sure they provide less drag than a forest that we probably cut down that was there before, right?
why not build them out in the middle of nowhere like...like...canada? or washington or something?
My dad tells a story about how he was one of the first to push NT in the corporate world. Apperently that made the team excited and he got a direct phone number to get support so there would be no flukes to tarnish its image. The story also goes that it worked better than the junk that they had been using, and since it worked well others in the company overlooked the "wonkey new operating system." Though as all things go, management changed and ditched everything because it wasn't the same as everything.
I think its more of management than IT. Even where I work now it still follows this pattern - management changes and they have to step in and change everything so it looks like they are all big and important.
For the record, NT at the time was far, far superior than what they had been using. I dont think I can say that about windows 7.
XP runs everything it does (.net, windows installer, office, etc.) and most companies already have plenty of licenses for it.
Windows 7 Ultimate Will is reccomended to have 15GB of space.
To install the Windows XP Pro addon, you need another 15GB of space.
Whats wrong here?